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M. A. ADLER. SYSTEM 0F BXHI-BITING SAMPLES 0F GARMENTS. No. 538,761.

Patented May '7, 1895.

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MARCUS A. ADLER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SYSTEM OF EXHIBITING YSAMPLES OF GARNIENTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 538,761, dated May 7, 1895. Application filed January 23, M395.` Serial No. 535,980. (No model.)

.To @ZZ whom t may concern,.-

Be it known that I, MARCUS A. ADLER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful ImprovementsV vin Systems of Exhibiting Samples of Garments, of which the following is arspecification.

The general objectlof my invention is to facilitate the carrying of samples of a coat or other similar garment, by commercial travelers or drum mers, and especially samples of manufacturers goods. Y

Prior to my invention it has been customary with commercial travelers, to carry either unmade samples of cloth, showing merely the pattern thereof, or half-sections of a garment,

such as a coat, that is to say, a section equivalent to one half of a made-up coat.

The disadvantages attending these systems of carrying the samples are, as to the example first named, that the plain goodsare notadapted to exhibit the appearance .of a garment made therefrom; while, as to the use of the made-up half-sections of the garment, the samples involve a considerable waste ofY labor and material, since, on account of frequent handling, and consequent wear, the samplesections are generally unfit for further use in av garment.

With a view to obviate these disadvantages,

my invention consists in the employment of a series of parts, of cloth,each cut and finished to represent a profile of the front edge of the coat or other selected garment, the parts being superimposed, in symmetrical relation, and each being of a different or contrasting color or pattern from the other of the series.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure I.

represents a side view of an assemblage of Fig. Il represents one of the parts detached.

Similar letters of reference indicate similar parts.

The letter A indicates each of the parts composing the sample, each being cut and finished from a piece of the selected cloth, to represent the profile of the front edge of a coat, which, in this example, is what is known as a sack coat. As shown, each of the parts A is of a different or contrasting pattern from the other or remaining parts; and in exhibiting the same, as a sample, the parts are superimposed or laid one upon the other, in symmetrical relation, so as to present, collectively, the appearance of a series of whole coats; the boundaryrlines of the superimposed parts being substantially parallel to each other.

The outermost member of the superimposed parts A, may be extended to represent the side of lacoat, including the sleeve, as shown in Fig. I; and the parts may be provided, al` ternatelywith a button and buttonhole, by means of which they may be connected together.

Inl defining the scope of my invention I would remark that I do not claim the sample composed of a flat half-section of a garment, nor one composed of pieces of cloth mounted on a card. Neither do I claim' the representation of patterns of cloth in print, on a card;

such being old, but

Vhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. Aseries of dum my garment samples each consisting of a narrow strip of goods finished at one edge to exhibit the profile out of a garment and unfinished on the other edge, said samples being superimposed and provided with means whereby they may be readily attached and detached, and said samples being arranged so that their finished edges are free and exposed and their unfinished edges are concealed, substantially as set forth.

2. A series of dummy garment samples eac-h consisting of a narrow strip of goods finished at one edge to exhibit the profile out of a garment and unfinished on the other edge, said dummy samples being superimposed and attached together near the front finished edges thereof, but arranged so that said finished edges are free and exposed, while the unfinished edges are concealed, in combination with an outer sample applied to said dummies and finished to exhibit a whole side or other extended portion of the garment, substantially as set forth, whereby the appearance of aseries of wholesamples is simulated.

3. A series of dum my garment samples each consisting of a narrow strip of goods finished at one edge to exhibit the profile cut of a garment and unfinished on the other edge, said IOO dummy samples being superimposed so that ples being provided with means whereby they lo their finished edges are free and exposed, in may be readily attached together nem' their combination with an outer sample applied to front edges, or detached when desired, subsaid dummies and nished to exhibit ewhole Stantially as set forth.

Side or other extended portion of the garment, 1 i

said outer sample having its profile edge ar- MARCU A' ADLER' ranged above and parallel with the proile Witnesses:

edge of said dummy samples and concealing CHAS. VAHLERS,

all unfinished edges thereof, all of said saml R. THOS. BOSKERCK. 

